On 08/03/2011 19:45, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Frank Church said:
[...]
>> They are cloud users in that sense as a lot of their data is stored
>> and found in the Google cloud.
>
> That is a stretch. Google is a mere index, like searchengines have for
> decades. For me C
In our previous episode, Frank Church said:
> >
> > Before you judge other people's procedures and actions, at least build a
> > case why it could be beneficial.
> >
> > The last attempt (the Netscape community server engine), didn't fare so
> > well, because just one person knew it.
> I am not ju
On 8 March 2011 11:48, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:57:12AM +, Frank Church wrote:
>
> > I think the real issue here is a lot of leading
> > Lazarus/FPC developers are comfortable and satisfied with their computer
> > setup and organization, which they probably have
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:57:12AM +, Frank Church wrote:
> I think the real issue here is a lot of leading
> Lazarus/FPC developers are comfortable and satisfied with their computer
> setup and organization, which they probably have spent a long time
> perfecting, pre cloud and pre Web 2.0 an
On 7 March 2011 12:33, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Op 2011-03-07 12:58, Frank Church het geskryf:
>
>
>> How about a stock VMWare, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 image that is setup
>> just right for perfect Lazarus/FPC development, with all the options
>> setup exactly right?
>>
>
> I thought about that
Op 2011-03-08 10:43, Sven Barth het geskryf:
because Arch follows the principle of a rolling release with rather
bleeding edge packages (like Gentoo, but normally not compiled from
I'm past the stage of always wanting the bleeding edge stuff. Now I just
want a stable system that always works.
Am 07.03.2011 10:30, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
Op 2011-03-07 11:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
however is that Debian/Ubuntu do have a fairly well-tested mechanism in
place for upgrading libraries etc. when necessary, while Slackware- at
least when I last looked- has to be reinstalled which
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Op 2011-03-07 12:58, Frank Church het geskryf:
How about a stock VMWare, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 image that is setup
just right for perfect Lazarus/FPC development, with all the options
setup exactly right?
I thought about that years ago, but not everybody has a beefy
Op 2011-03-07 12:58, Frank Church het geskryf:
How about a stock VMWare, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 image that is setup
just right for perfect Lazarus/FPC development, with all the options
setup exactly right?
I thought about that years ago, but not everybody has a beefy system to
run a VM sessio
On 7 March 2011 10:25, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Op 2011-03-07 12:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
>
> apt-get etc. However with the generally-cheap Internet connections in
>> Europe
>>
>
> That's unfortunately just a dream for South Africans. Here the general
> thinking is "lets screw the co
Op 2011-03-07 12:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
apt-get etc. However with the generally-cheap Internet connections in
Europe
That's unfortunately just a dream for South Africans. Here the general
thinking is "lets screw the consumer for as long as we can". :-/
years ago. You can obvio
Op 2011-03-07 11:55, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
Well I do- when I have to- and sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesn't.
That's not good enough for me, hence I always do a clean install, and I
am guaranteed it works.
I just think that it's important to have the option, and I'm
writ
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Op 2011-03-07 11:18, Henry Vermaak het geskryf:
`apt-get build-dep flamerobin` will install all the necessary packages
to be able to build flamerobin from the source package. Installing the
build-essential package is also a must in most cases.
The reason I prefer a d
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Op 2011-03-07 11:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
however is that Debian/Ubuntu do have a fairly well-tested mechanism in
place for upgrading libraries etc. when necessary, while Slackware- at
least when I last looked- has to be reinstalled which is significant
work.
Op 2011-03-07 11:42, michael.vancann...@wisa.be het geskryf:
Strange. The painless upgrades is why I switched from OpenSuSE to Ubuntu.
Never had any troubles, and I am doing this since 8.04.
I must admit, the last Ubuntu upgrade I tried was around 5.10 or 6.06,
so a looong time ago. I guess
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Op 2011-03-07 11:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
however is that Debian/Ubuntu do have a fairly well-tested mechanism in
place for upgrading libraries etc. when necessary, while Slackware- at
least when I last looked- has to be reinstalled which
Op 2011-03-07 11:18, Henry Vermaak het geskryf:
`apt-get build-dep flamerobin` will install all the necessary packages
to be able to build flamerobin from the source package. Installing the
build-essential package is also a must in most cases.
The reason I prefer a distro that contains everyt
Op 2011-03-07 11:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:
however is that Debian/Ubuntu do have a fairly well-tested mechanism in
place for upgrading libraries etc. when necessary, while Slackware- at
least when I last looked- has to be reinstalled which is significant work.
I wouldn't know about OS
On 07/03/11 07:07, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
I have been using Ubuntu since its inception. But recently I found that
I have to install lots of extra packages just to compile a GTK2 or Qt
application. Out of the box, Ubuntu cannot compile and link a program
written with FPC either. Same proble
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
So if you want to use a Linux distro that just works out of the box _for
programming_, I would highly recommend Slackware. It's easy to install,
update and configure. Comes with a boat load of handy HOWTO documents
etc. And most importantly, it comes preloaded with eve
Hi,
I have been using Ubuntu since its inception. But recently I found that
I have to install lots of extra packages just to compile a GTK2 or Qt
application. Out of the box, Ubuntu cannot compile and link a program
written with FPC either. Same problems with using Lazarus IDE, or even
trying
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